Quotes About Engagement

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

I am very needy for friendship and I hate men. I want to f - - them, but I can now say I'm engaged - get away from me.

Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.